Chapter Four

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LATER AFTER EVERYONE LEFT THE  GREAT HALL SOME TEACHERS WAITED TILL ALL OF THE STUDENTS ARE OUT BEFORE THEY TO LEFT. JUST AS THE REMAINING TEACHERS LIKE SLUGHORN, MCGONIGAL, SNAPE AND DUMBLEDORE WERE ABOUT TO LEAVE, THE GREAT HALL DOORS FLEW OPEN. THEY ALL STOP WALIKG AWAY AND LOOK AT THE DOOR. THERE WAS NO ONE THERE BUT A BIG GUST OF WIND BLEW IN KNOCKING EVERYONE DOWN EXCEPT DUMBLEDORE.

A HOODED FIGURE CAME RIDING IN ON HER ROOM LIKE A SKATE BOARD THROUGH THE WIND. AS THIS PERSON ENTERED THE GREAT HALL THE WIND STOPPED AS HER FOOT TOUCHED THE GROUND. SHE TOOK HER BROOM IN HAND, KEPT WALKING, AND COLLAPSED IT INTO A MINIATURE ITEM AND TUCKED IT AWAY. AS THIS PERSON APPROACHES THE TEACHERS SHE STOPS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STEPS. THE HOODED PERSON TOOK OFF THE HOOD AND LOOKED UP. EVERYONE SAW THAT IT WAS A YOUNG FEMALE WHO LOOKED TO BE AROUND NINETEEN. SHE HAD SHORT BLACK HAIR, WITH EMERALD GREEN EYES.

EVERYONE THAT WAS ON THE FLOOR FINALLY GETS BACK UP. WHILE THE GIRL USES HER HAND TO CLOSE THE DOOR TO THE ROOM. DUMBLEDORE TAKES THAT MOMENT TO GO OVER TO HER TO GREET HER, BUT SHE STEPS BACK EVERY TIME HE TAKES A STEP TOWARDS HER. HE GETS THE HINT AND STOPS ON THE MIDDLE STEP.

"WELCOME TO HOGWARTS. WHAT CAN WE DO FOR YOU?" DUMBLEDORE ASKED WITH A SMIRK.

THE GIRL THEN LOOKED AROUND TO EVERYONE ELSE, THEN THE ROOM AND THEN BACK TO HIM. SHE EYED HIM BUT THEN SURRENDERED.

"RASABITH REQUIEM."

DUMBLEDORE SMILES AND MOTIONS TO MCGONICAL, "BRING BACK OVER THE SORTING HAT IF YOU WILL PROFESSOR MCGONAGAL."

SHE GAVE A SIMPLE NOD AND DASHED OFF TO GET IT. THE ROOM WAS SILENT UNTIL MCGONIGAL BROUGHT THE HAT. DUMBLEDORE MOTIONED FOR RASABITH TO GO UP TO HAT. RASABITH WALKED UP TO HER WHILE GIVING EVERYONE A SCOWL. MCGONIGAL PLACED THE HAT ON HER HEAD.

WITHIN FIVE SECONDS OF BEING ON HER HEAD THE HAT SAID, "SLYTHERIN!" SNAPE SCOFFED.

"WHY DID I HAVE TO HAVE A HAT PUT ON MY HEAD?" SHE ASKED AS THE HAT WAS TAKEN OFF OF HER HEAD.

"THERE ARE FOUR HOUSES IN HOGWARTS THE HAT WAS MERLY SORTING YOU INTO ONE." MCGONIGAL EXPLAINED.

RASABITH ROLLS HER EYES BUT NODDED. AS SHE STOOD UP SHE TURNED AROUND AND FELT A PARE OF DARK EYES ON HER. SHE TURNED HER HEAD AND LOOKED OVER THAT THIS VERY TALL, SHORT BLACK HAIRED, SCOWLING MAN. JUST FOR A MOMENT, UNKNOWN TO HER, SHE COULDN'T TAKE HER EYES OFF OF HIM. HIS DARK EYES CALLED TO HER AND SHE FELT THE ERGE TO RESPOND. AS FOR SNAPE HE STOOD THERE EXAMINING THE GIRL. SHE HAD GREEN EYES NOT BLUE LIKE LILIES. OH HOW HE MISSED HER. HE STILLED LOVED HER MORE THAN ANYTHING BUT FOR SOME REASON THERE WAS A STRANGE FEELING IN HIS CHEST THAT HASNT BEEN THERE SINCE LILY WAS ALIVE BUT HE COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT AND BETTER YET HE COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY HE COULDN'T STOP STARING AT THIS GIRL.

DUMBLEDORE BROKE THE TENSION HE THOUGHT WAS RISING BY WALKING OVER TO RASABITH WHO NOW EYES SNAPE SUSPICIOUSLY.

"WHO ARE YOU?" SHE ASKED SNAPE.

"THIS IS PROFESSOR SNAPE, HEAD OF SLYTHERIN HOUSE." DUMBLEDORE ANSWERED.

"OH." SHE ROLLED HER EYES.

SHE LOOKS BACK AT DUMBLEDORE, "HE WILL ALSO TAKE YOU TO YOUR COMMON ROOM."

SHE JUST ROLLS HER EYES AND SLOWLY NODS. DUMBLEDORE MOTIONS FOR SNAPE TO TAKE HER. THE REST OF THE TEACHERS LEFT THE ROOM. SNAPE WALKS UP BEHIND HER WHICH SECRETLY SENT CHILLS DOWN HER SPINE.

IN A LOW HUSKY VOICE SNAPE SAID, "LETS GO."

RASABITH FOLDS HER ARMS AS SNAPE WALKS IN FRONT OF HER FOR HER TO FOLLOW. DUMBLEDORE WATCHED WITH GREAT INTENSITY AND COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH A LIKE THEY WERE. ALL HE COULD THINK ABOUT HOW THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING.

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